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Re:UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU by Nursie on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @08:52AM (#13985592)
IIRC the human rights act and membership of the ECHR are separate to the EU.

I agree, there's been some awful rhetoric out of the Tories about dismantling those, but as yet they aren't under threat AFAICT

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Re:UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU by kuschku on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @11:20AM (#13987104)
> IIRC the human rights act and membership of the ECHR are separate to the EU.

Membership in the EU requires membership in the ECHR, that’s why Britain can only after Brexit go back to the human rights of the 1600s that the elected government wants.

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Re:UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU by Nursie on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @12:35PM (#13987952)
Indeed, EU membership was a lock on ECHR membership.

But leaving the EU does noy (yet) mean leaving ECHR.

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Re:UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU by handelaar on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @01:18PM (#13988474)
Leaving the ECHR is however the stated policy of the current UK government, and leaving the EU will allow it to actually do so.
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Re:UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU by Nursie on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @01:36PM (#13988663)
We can only hope they fail.
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